Roadside sign



AND E. TRAUB.

ROADSIDE SIGN.

APPLl'cATloN FILED MAY 26 `llatented Sept. i9, i922.

STATES llalt PTENT FEEE,

GEORGE TRA'UB, WILLIAM TBAUB, AND EDWARD TRAUB, OE WAGO, TEXAS.

ROADSIDE SIGN.

Application led May 26, 1922. Serial No. 563,869.

To all w/wm t 'may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE TRAUB, WILLIAM TRAUB, and EDWARD Timun, citizens of the United States of America, residing at `Waco, in the county of McLennan and State of Texas, have invented new and useful improvements in Roadside Signs, of which the following is a specification.

rlhe object of the invention is to provide a roadside sign adapted for use as a direction indicator and advertising medium which is so constructed as to minimize the effect of the wind thereon to avoid the risk of displacement by wind pressure by conspicuously and conveniently displaying the directions or advertising matter carried thereby; and with this object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is an elevation, and

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view of a sign board structure embodying the invention.

Figure 3 -is a top plan view of the arrows indicating the cardinal points of the compass.

The device embodies a frame which as illustrated is of substantially rectangular form with terminal uprights 10 forming posts adapted to be secured -by coupling sleeves 11 or the equivalents thereof with the anchor posts 12 preferably set in concrete or similar foundations 13 to which they may be locked by the anchors 1d, and said standards are connected by horizontal or cross bars 15 and if desired by supplemental intermediate uprights 16 to provide a series of panels having` fillers 17 of wire screen or the equivalent thereof, the skeleton frame and iillers thus affording but slight opposition to the wind and thus minimizing the pressure upon the device and the risk of displacement thereof. The fill# ers are preferably carried by outer and inner marginal frames 18 and 19 to which the frame is bolted or riveted as indicated at 2O to the main or skeleton frame, and suspended in the open spaces bounded by the inner frames are sign plates 21 sup ported at their upper edges for swinging movement by means of interlocking eyes 22 and adapted to yield readily to the pressure of wind to reduce the Strain upon the sign structure while maintaining a normal position which conspicuously exposes the directions or advertising matter carried by the surfaces thereof. The intermediate upright of the skeleton frame is preferably provided with arrows or like pointers 23 to indicate the cardinal points of the compass as a guide to pedestrians and drivers, and obviously the frame and particularly the terminal balls 2li with which the upright and horizontal elements of the main frame are provided may be ornamented or polished to attract attention and facilitate the discovery of the sign when the light is dim, but the principal advantage of the structure as a sign medium resides in the fact that whereas the supporting members are relieved to a large extent of the wind pressure tending to displace the sign,'the sign carrying elements consisting of the plates 21 are conspicuously displayed and framed or paneled in such a way as to readily distinguish the same and enable the subject matter Jthereof to be read or noted with facility even from a rapidly passing vehicle. Obviously when the device can be so positioned as to be visible from both sides as for example in approaching the same in either direc-tion, the sign matter may be carried by both sides of the sign plates.

A sign constructed as above indicated is a portable sign to the extent that it may be easily taken apart. Being constructed entirely of metal, its appearance is shiny and the screening employed segregates the signs so that each is easily distinguishable.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is A roadside sign structure having a skeleton frame subdivided to form panels containing fillers of screen material bounding inner open spaces, and freely swinging sign plates respectively suspended in said spaces and yieldable to air pressure, the filler members being provided with inner and outer marginal supplemental frames of which the latter are secured to the members of the skeleton frame and the former support the sign plate.

In testimony whereof they aiiX their signatures.

GEORGE TRAUB. WILLIAM TRAUB. EDWARD TRAUB. 

